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Happiness

«The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak»
Author: Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher) | About: Happiness, Men, Silence, World | Keywords: happier
«The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself»
Author: Theodore Reik | About: Happiness | Keywords: attainable, insofar
«The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible»
«The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.»
Author: Doug Larson | About: Happiness | Keywords: contentment, snub, snubbed, snubs, spectacular
«The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery»
«The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher) | About: Boredom, Happiness, Pain | Keywords: foes
«The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.»
«The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.»
«The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.»
«The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future»